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Registered charity · Wrexham

Prifysgol Wrecsam/Wrexham University

  • 20 trustees
  • Income £60m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham, Gwynedd
Website
www.glyndwr.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£60m£60m
  • 2024£62m£61m
  • 2023£51m£53m
Earlier years
  • 2022£47m£49m
  • 2021£47m£45m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE UNIVERSITY'S CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS DEFINED IN THE EDUCATION REFORM ACT 1988 PART II CHAPTER 2I124 POWERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION(1) A HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION SHALL HAVE POWER-(A) TO PROVIDE HIGHER EDUCATION;(B) TO PROVIDE FURTHER EDUCATION; AND(C) TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH IT IN SUCH MANNER AS THE CORPORATION THINK FIT.

Grants received

5 grants · £577,644 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £503,690 (2 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £73,954 (2 grants)
  • Nesta ·

Most recent

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £39,1852021-08-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £34,7692021-05-01
  • Nesta Amount not published2020-07-01
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9602018-07-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £493,7302014-05-21
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

20 trustees on the board

2.9y median 2.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (17)

Portfolio (3)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 20Recreation 2Amateur Sport 1General Charitable Purposes 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 3Education 2Hospitality 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£60.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

13.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.4 in 2021

608 from 439 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1142048
Status
Registered
Governing document
INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT DATED 03/07/2008 as amended on 07 Oct 2022
Contact on the register
01978290666 · charityandgovernance@glyndwr.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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